To those who have inquired and wondered how we have weathered Hurricane Matthew,  we did well.  The Refuge behind us soaked up water as it was designed to do and our home withstood the elements handily.  Thank you for your concern and this hurricane will do nicely for the rest of my days.  Uneventful is what I anticipate and appreciate in my mid eighties.  Thank you very much.  The following are some of the sparklers in my thinking.

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Man can strike the essence of what is wrong in an area the heavens cannot.

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Man must process an enormous amount of garbage in the place where integration of the human is of vital interest.

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The sounds of mortal life cut deeply and quickly and with great pain to those who have ears to hear.

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It is always more enlightening to apply criticism of an Other’s behavior to oneself.

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Rehearsed rhetoric is a game to use for one’s own justification.

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Humanity’s progress comes quarter inch by quarter inch.

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Mass evolution is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms; never a fact and never a reality.